Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and… — Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that… — Oscar Niemeyer
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
Life is more important than architecture. — Oscar Niemeyer
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time… — Tadao Ando
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,… — Eugene Atget
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of… — Donald Barthelme
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. — Piet Mondrian
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. — Leon Krier
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. — Leon Krier
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
We have to base architecture on the environment. — Toyo Ito
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new… — Zaha Hadid
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a… — Zaha Hadid
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it… — Zaha Hadid
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings… — Zaha Hadid

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